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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is reported by Reuters to have said that Dutch forensics experts are at the eastern Ukrainian railway station in Torez where some victims' bodies are being stored.

STANDARD 10:04

Italian former Foreign Minister Emma Bonino says she expects a "strong unified response" to the crisis when she and other EU foreign ministers meet on Tuesday.

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It remains unclear when and where the victims' bodies will be transported, AP reports, or why the cooling system of the train in which the bodies are stored was switched off on Sunday night. An AP reporter in the town of Torez says "the smell of decomposing bodies is more pronounced than on Sunday".

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tweets: How is it that reporters can roam around at the #malaysianplanecrash site in #Ukraine but investigators are not allowed to do so?

STANDARD 10:11

People spray water to extinguish a fire after fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk.

STANDARD 10:15

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says he is willing to cede control of the crash investigation to the Netherlands. He repeats his belief that the plane was shot down by pro-Russian separatists.

"At the moment we have no doubt that the plane was shot down... The reason for it - a missile strike most likely from a BUK-M1 [SA-11 radar-guided missile system]... It is clear that this system could not be operated by drunk pro-Russian terrorists. They were professional people who were trained and this training took place on Russian territory and received arms and funding from Russia."